GDC 2012 [News & Discussion]

[lcroft_lc]

Game Developers Conference aka GDC 2012 takes place from March 5 through March 9 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. Note that there will be another GDC called GDC Europe 2012 from August 13 to August 15 in Germany. This thread is for GDC 2012 which will take place in San Francisco, California.

Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski will host the 12th annual Game Developers Choice Awards and Monaco creator Andy Schatz will once again be hosting the 14th annual Independent Games Festival awards, according to GDC organizers. Both award ceremonies take place during GDC, Wednesday, March 7 at 6.30pm PST. Thanks, Gamasutra.

So far confirmed lectures on Upcoming Games are:

• Diablo III (The session name is "The Art of Diablo III")
• Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (The session name is "Rigging a Resident Evil – Inside the Bone Code of Operation Raccoon City"
• Hitman: Absolution (The session name is "Crowds in Hitman: Absolution")

So far confirmed talks are:

• Sid Meier will be hosted a game design track called “Interesting Decisions” which will discuss how developers make interesting gameplay decisions and how to those “uninteresting decisions.”
• Mega Man co-creator and ex-Capcom man Keiji Inafune will discuss “The Future of Japanese Games” at the conference.
• Riot Games lead producer Travis George will host a production track titled “Evolving the MOBA Genre – The League of Legends: Dominion Postmortem.”
• Halfbrick Studios designer Luke Muscat will look back at the development of the studio’s most recent mobile title with a session dubbed, “Depth in Simplicity: The Making of Jetpack Joyride.”
• WB Games VP and general manger Laura Fryer will host “Kinematics and Other Techniques for Managing the Creative Process.”
• Mod developer and thechineseroom creative director Dan Pinchbeck will host a lecture titled Dear Esther: Making an Indie Success Out of an Experimental Mod.
• Taito chief game designer Reisuke Ishida will appear in the Design track, giving his first ever Western presentation, called “Five Techniques for Making an Unforgettable Game, Illustrated in Space Invaders Infinity Gene and Groove Coaster”
• BioWare’s Adriana Lopez will give a talk entitled “Ownership – Dragon Age Style”
• Composer Austin Wintory will give a lecture called “Journey vs Monaco: Music is Storytelling”
• Marketing, & Management stream, the popular Ben Cousins, once of EA and now of Ngmoco, will give a talk called "When the Consoles Die – What Comes Next?"
• Kasavin will discuss the difficulty of building “cohesive and meaningful moment-to-moment experiences”
• “Witcher 2: How CD Projekt RED Sold Over a Million Copies of its Exclusive PC Game And How You Can Too” – CD Projekt RED CEO Marcin Iwinski
• Sony artist Yoshiaki Yamaguchi will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the art direction of Vita’s Gravity Rush called “Bringing the Visuals of Gravity Rush to PlayStation Vita”
• Double Fine’s Tim Schafer, Lee Petty, Brad Muir, and Nathan Martz will talk in a session called "“Creative Panic: How Agility Turned Terror Into Triumph”
• Rocksteady art director David Hego will discuss ‘the evolution and creative process' in a session called "Batman: Arkham City – Journey from the Asylum to the City"
• “Words With Friends: Building and Growing a Game on the Top of the Charts” – Zynga With Friends CTO Vijay Thakkar

Note: Crystal Dynamics will be there recruiting and will have a booth set up. Unknown at this stage if Tomb Raider will be shown but focus seems to be primarily on the new IP.


News on GDC 2012

• GDC 2012 to include lectures on Diablo III, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
• GDC 2012 to include lectures from IO Interactive, WB Games Seattle and Dear Esther sessions
• GDC 2012 to include lectures from Naughty Dog, Volition, PopCap
• Dragon Age, Journey, and Space Invaders talks added to GDC 2012 line up
• Skyrim, Portal 2, Bastion receive five GDC Awards nods
• GDC 2012: Kasavin, Molyneux, Bleszinski and more added to line-up
• Dear Esther leads 2012 IGF Awards nominees
• GDC 2012: Blizzard, Moriarty and postmortem Summits added to schedule
• Bleszinski and Schatz to host GDC and IGF award shows, respectively
• GDC 2012: Double Fine, Gravity Rush, Rocksteady talks added to schedule
• GDC 2012: Sid Meier, Inafune, Riot Games talks added to schedule
• Cage to showcase new Quantic Dream tech at GDC
• GDC 2012: Audio sessions announced for Bastion, Crysis 2, others
• GDC 2012: Indie Game: The Movie session announced
• GDC 2012: SWTOR postmortem and Notch Q&A announced
• Warren Spector to get GDC Lifetime Achievement Award
• Medal of Honor 2 set for GDC reveal
• Fallout, Gauntlet retrospective at GDC
• Paradox to announce three titles at GDC next month
• GDC 2012: Classic Game Postmortems return with Harvest Moon, Fallout, more
• GDC 2012: Super Mario 3D Land and RE: Revelations postmortem talks added
• GDC 2012: Skylanders, Deus Ex, Frozen Synapse added to schedule
• GDC 2012: Games for Change summit talks from Livingstone, others announced
• EA to livestream GDC event on March 6, features Maxis announcement
• GDC 2012: Three talks added to Education summit
• GDC Play adds Facebook gardening, Game of Thrones
• A week to GDC 2012: why there’ll be no keynote
• Epic to preview next-gen Unreal Engine 4 at GDC

GDC Awards
A complete list of nominees is below.

Best Game Design

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo)
• Portal 2 (Valve)
• Batman: Arkham City (Rocksteady Studios)
• Dark Souls (From Software)

Innovation

• Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure (Toys For Bob)
• Portal 2 (Valve)
• Bastion (Supergiant Games)
• Johann Sebastian Joust (Die Gute Fabrik)
• L.A. Noire (Team Bondi)

Best Technology

• Battlefield 3 (DICE)
• L.A. Noire (Team Bondi)
• Crysis 2 (Crytek Frankfurt/UK)
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
• Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (Naughty Dog)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Tiny Tower (NimbleBit)
• Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo)
• Jetpack Joyride (Halfbrick)
• Infinity Blade II (Chair Entertainment)
• Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (Capy Games/Superbrothers)

Best Audio

• Bastion (Supergiant Games)
• LittleBigPlanet 2 (Media Molecule)
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
• Dead Space 2 (Visceral Games)
• Portal 2 (Valve)

Best Downloadable Game

• Stacking (Double Fine)
• From Dust (Ubisoft Montpellier)
• Bastion (Supergiant Games)
• Outland (Housemarque)
• Frozen Synapse (Mode 7)

Best Narrative

• Portal 2 (Valve)
• The Witcher 2 (CD Projekt RED)
• Bastion (Supergiant Games)
• Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (Naughty Dog)
• Saints Row: The Third (Volition)

Best Debut

• Supergiant Games (Bastion)
• Team Bondi (L.A. Noire)
• Re-Logic (Terraria)
• BioWare Austin (Star Wars: The Old Republic)
• Eidos Montreal (Deus Ex: Human Revolution)

Best Visual Arts

• Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (Naughty Dog)
• Rayman Origins (Ubisoft Montpellier)
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
• El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (Ignition Japan)
• Battlefield 3 (DICE)

Game of the Year

• Batman: Arkham City (Rocksteady Studios)
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
• Portal 2 (Valve)
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Eidos Montreal)
• Dark Souls (From Software)

The winners will be announced at the Game Developers Conference on Wednesday, March 7th at 6:30 pm.

[TippingWater]

No Tomb Raider ? Oh well , the wait will probably be worth it .

[lcroft_lc]

Originally Posted by TippingWater

No Tomb Raider ? Oh well , the wait will probably be worth it .

They didn't say anything about Tomb Raider. But Crystal will be at GDC. They will announce a new IP? Isn't that exciting too? I am excited in that new IP more than Half Life 3 announcement. God and Karl knows what it is.

[MyRaider4Life]

Originally Posted by lcroft_lc

They didn't say anything about Tomb Raider. But Crystal will be at GDC. They will announce a new IP? Isn't that exciting too? I am excited in that new IP more than Half Life 3 announcement. God and Karl knows what it is.

They will be recruiting for the new IP. Also, there's no word on Half Life 3 being at GDC.

[TippingWater]

Originally Posted by lcroft_lc

They didn't say anything about Tomb Raider. But Crystal will be at GDC. They will announce a new IP? Isn't that exciting too? I am excited in that new IP more than Half Life 3 announcement. God and Karl knows what it is.

I wonder if they will only show it behind closed doors .

[dream raider]

I already made a thread half an hour before you did. WAKE UP.

[TippingWater]

Originally Posted by dream raider

I already made a thread half an hour before you did. WAKE UP.

This one has more info .

[dream raider]

It wouldn't be hard to make a post about it on my thread- the reason I created it in the first place was to discuss it, not start a competition.

[TippingWater]

But you have managed to turn it into one , just sayin' .

[lcroft_lc]

Originally Posted by MyRaider4Life

They will be recruiting for the new IP. Also, there's no word on Half Life 3 being at GDC.

Yes they will be recruiting. I don't know how they do it but I was thinking they might announce the game while recruiting. No idea. And I was talking about future announcement of Half Life 3. Whether it is announced in 2012 or in 2020.

Originally Posted by TippingWater

I wonder if they will only show it behind closed doors .

Probably they will. I want someone to bash that door. Only if they should invite multiplayer.it.

Originally Posted by dream raider

I already made a thread half an hour before you did. WAKE UP.

Sorry didn't see your thread at first place. I was working for almost an hour to put info in this thread. You can ask mod to close this thread if you want. No problem from me.